NONNIUS, Ludovicus (Luis NUNEZ).Ichtyophagia sive de piscium esu commentarius.Antwerp, Petrus and Joannes Bellerus, 1616. 8vo. With woodcut vignette on the title-page, several woodcut initials in the text. Contemporary vellum, large paper label with woodcut illustration on spine. Krivatsy 8338 (imperfect); Oberlé 764; STCV (4 copies); Vicaire, col. 626. Only edition of this work on the consumption of fish and its health benefits, written by the Spanish born Ludovicus Nonnius (1555-1646), who was a physician in Antwerp. In 42 chapters, about 40 species of fish are treated, each with a nomenclature and citations from other authors in Latin, Greek, Flemish and French. A small portion of the text is devoted to oysters and molluscs. The book is dedicated to Nicolaus Rockox jr. (1560-1640), mayor of Antwerp and close friend of the painter Rubens.The front hinge is weak, upper margin of title-page neatly restored without loss of text, former owner's stamp (a lion within a cartouche) on the verso of the title-page. A good copy of this gastronomic work on fish.

Tiraqueau, Andre; Zilleto, Giovanni BattistaDe Iure [Jure] Constituti Possessorii Tractatus, Cum Summariis 1555. Treatise on the Roman Law of Transfers by a Distinguished French Humanist Jurist Tiraqueau, Andre [1488-1588]. Zilleto, Giovanni Battista. De Iure Constituti Possessorii Tractatus. Cum Summariis Novissime Additis & Alphabetico Repertorio Io. Bap. Zilleti. Venice: [Apud Bartholomaeum Caesanum], 1551. 136, [20] ff. Octavo (5-3/4" x 3-3/4"). Later quarter vellum over marbled boards, lettering piece, gilt fillets and gilt ornaments to spine. Rubbing with some wear around edges and corners, small inkstain near foot of spine, small strip of paper excised from foot of title page. Large woodcut printer device and colophon, woodcut vignette of Tiraqueau lecturing at head of main text, woodcut decorated initials. Light toning to text, early underlining in a few places, interior otherwise clean. Ex-library. Bookplate to front pastedown. A nice copy. * Third edition. Tiraqueau was a distinguished humanist jurist and counselor to the Paris Parlement. First published in 1549, De Iure Constitututi Possessorii addresses the Roman law concerning the transfer of property. It went though five more editions, the last one in 1558. It was reissued in two later collected-works editions, Tractatus and Opera Omnia. Censimento Nazionale Delle Edizioni Italiane del XVI Secolo CNCE49628.

Vesalius, AndreasDe humani corporis fabrica Basel: J. Oporinus, 1555. Abraham Jacobi?s Copy of the 1555 Fabrica Vesalius, Andreas (1514-64). De humani corporis fabrica libri septem. Folio. [12], 824, [48]pp. Five-page manuscript index in the hand of Bavarian obstetrician Johann Feiler (1786-1822), a former owner of this copy, bound in the back. Woodcut title, portrait, 2 woodcut folding plates, text woodcuts. Basel: Oporinus, 1555. 407 x 260 mm. 18th century calf, rebacked preserving original gilt spine and leather label, edges and corners repaired. Light toning, title a bit soiled and with small marginal lacuna, tears in first folding plate repaired at an early date, but a fine, clean copy with large margins. Long Latin inscription dated October 6, 1816 and signed ?Jacobi? on the front flyleaf, noting that this copy was a gift from Feiler to ?Fr. X. G. de Ploederl?; i.e. Franz Xavier Georg Plöderl (fl. early 19th cent.), author of a treatise on hysterectomy (De hysterotomia, 1820). Faint stamp on title and another leaf of pioneering American pediatrician Abraham Jacobi (1830-1919); bookplate of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland noting Jacobi?s gift of this copy. Second edition of the founding work of modern anatomy, containing the most beautiful and famous illustrations in the history of medicine, attributed to Jan van Calcar of the school of Titian. The 1555 edition was printed on heavier paper with larger type ?with only 49 instead of 57 lines to the page, thus necessitating the recutting of all the small initial letters so that they would now fit seven lines of the new type. Indeed, an entirely new wood-block was cut for the frontispiece . . . ?Vesalius made some definite improvements in the text which have been cited by Garrison, such as concern the ethnic aspects of craniology, but more particularly in connection with his physiological observations in the last chapter, viz., (i) the effect of nerve section [p. 810, lines 22-34], (ii) persistence of life after splenectomy [p. 820, lines 26-31], (iii) collapse of the lungs on puncture of the chest [p. 821, lines 25-31], (iv) aphonia from section of the laryngeal nerve [p. 823, lines 25-31], (v) prolongation of life by artificial intratracheal inflation of collapsed lungs [p. 824, lines 8-14]? (Cushing, pp. 90-92). This copy includes an 18th-century manuscript index to the work by Bavarian obstetrician Johann Feiler, which clearly indicates that Feiler had both read the Fabrica and regarded it as an important reference. Feiler later gave this copy to Franz X. G. Plöderl, who was most likely Feiler?s student. Afterwards this copy was owned by American pediatrician Abraham Jacobi, who opened the first children?s clinic in the U.S. at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. Garrison-Morton.com 377. Cushing, Bio-Bibliography of Andreas Vesalius, VI.A.-3. For Feiler see Hirsch, Biographisches Lexikon herforragender Aerzte vor 1880.